mingyu and minghao used to be lovers until the day minghao had to leave for paris due to his career.
mingyu and minghao started dating during college and minghao always have this bottle of perfume that he brings around in his bag. mingyu and minghao have always been the popular campus couple that everyone envy because of what minghao did for mingyu before they became a couple.
minghao and mingyu used to be just strangers and classmates on campus, nothing more, nothing less. minghao was the popular kid on campus that everyone just wants to be friends with him whereas mingyu always gets bullied. until one day, mingyu was getting bullied at the hallway near his locker where the bully punch him just for his lunch money. minghao saw that was a crowd near his locker and decided to walk over to see what is happening. when he reached the area, he saw the seungkwan, the bully sitting on top of mingyu demanding for his lunch money while getting punched in the face. minghao pulled seungkwan away from mingyu, stepping in between both of them and that's when mingyu finally found his shield of protection.
they started dating for a period and mingyu came to realise that minghao had a vulnerable side of him and that he could actually protect minghao whenever he needs to. minghao was always there for mingyu whenever and no one dares to come near both of them. soon, mingyu learnt to be dependent on minghao and they never separate from each other.
after dating for 2 years, mingyu have always been happy whenever he was with minghao. he also learn that minghao only used that one kind of perfume that had a unique scent. the scent have a mixture of citrus and nature that mingyu finds it intriguing. minghao always made sure that he sprays the perfume before he leaves the house as he knows how much mingyu love the smell and how mingyu finds it comforting.
one extremely cold night, mingyu came back home from work to see minghao packing his luggage. he quickly went up to minghao and ask why he was packing and where was he going. minghao ignored him while packing as he wants to get it over and done with. all mingyu could do was to back hug minghao crying and ask him what was going on. for that moment, minghao stopped packing and turn around to only pull mingyu away from him. he faced a crying mingyu right in front of him so vulnerable and he wanted to protect him so much but he knew that he needed to leave him.
minghao took a deep breath in and wipe the tears from mingyu's face. he then told mingyu that he was offered a modelling job in paris and he have to leave him. mingyu kept crying and told minghao not to go but all minghao could do was to pull himself away from mingyu as he finished packing, pulling his luggage to the front door. mingyu kept on crying to the extent that he didn't have anymore energy and dragged himself to the front door as he persuaded minghao one last time to stay with him.
minghao gave mingyu one last forehead kiss with a hug before he left and never came back after.
mingyu cried into his pillow which was filled with the scent minghao have left all day and night until seokmin, his best friend came by his house as he failed to attend work for 2 weeks.
the doorbell rang a couple of times but mingyu was too tired to even get up to open the door. the ringing stopped when he heard the front door opened and the first thing that came to his mind was whether minghao came back, so he got himself out of bed but only to be greeted by seokmin.
mingyu saw seokmin and dragged himself back to bed as he covered himself with the blanket that was the only source of where minghao's scent still lingered. seokmin got worried and followed mingyu back into the bedroom to only see mingyu being wrapped up like a burrito in his bed. seokmin went beside his bed and tapped mingyu on his shoulder but mingyu wouldn't budge at all.
"mingyu, you need to get up and tell me what's wrong. you didn't attend work for the last 2 weeks or even answer my calls, everyone's worried about you." seokmin said. all he could hear was mingyu's sobbing into the pillow and he just sat there till mingyu have calmed down.
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perfume - minwon
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